1) Boorish 2) Exclusively Saxon word 3) Exclusively Anglo word 4) Having a bad disposition 5) Like a churl 6) Niggardly 7) Of a churl 8) Peasantlike 9) Rude and boorish 10) Rude and surly 11) Rude or surly 12) Surly 13) Ungracious 14) Word of purely Anglo origin 15) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 1) Chuffy 2) Coarse 3) Crabbed 4) Gruff 5) Impolite 6) Rude 7) Uncouth 8) Ungracious 
• (a.) Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. • (a.) Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.
Churl'ish adjective 1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. ' Churlish benefits.' Ld. Burleigh. « Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper. » 2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easil...
[adj] - rude and boorish 2. [adj] - having a bad disposition
adjective having a bad disposition; surly; `churlish as a bear`- Shakespeare
like a churl; boorish; rude: churlish behavior. · of a churl; peasantlike. · niggardly; mean. · difficult to work or deal with, as soil.